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John Psathas  

4BY4

Duration: 08' 30" Year: 2012
for percussion quartet

• Instrumentation
  China Cymbal / Conga (x2) / Crash Cymbal / Floor Tom (x2) / Hi-Hats (x3) / Kick Bass Drum (x4) / Snare Drum (x2) / Splash Cymbal / Tambourine (Headless) / Tom (x6)
• Programme Note

  I’ve admired John Psathas’ music for years, for its incredible sense of energy, its ability to defy categorization, and its cultural pluralism. With 4BY4 (his first non-pitched percussion piece), John delivers on all counts … and then some. If David Weckl, Christopher Lamb, Steven Schick and Giovanni Hidalgo – all percussion virtuosi from widely different genres – were to have a jam session, I can’t help but think that it would sound something like 4BY4.

  Each of the four players plays a drumset-like set-up; one player has two snare drums a hi-hat, a tambourine, and a cymbal, another has two congas and a hihat, and the remaining two have tom-based set-ups. However, what binds these four seemingly disparate voices is the kick drum, which all four drumsets have. At times, these four drums pound a relentless beat in unison, and at others they’re split into complex rhythmic counterpoint.

  It is this, in part, that makes 4BY4 such a great piece and a perfect fit for this album. John manages to take culturally different instruments, each with different playing techniques, and link them together with a common element – the kick drum. It is cultural pluralism at its best, with each voice maintaining its unique sound and identity, but seamlessly integrated into a common whole.
  - Omar Carmenates

• Availability

  • John Psathas: 4BY4; video 

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  • Omar Carmenates: The Gaia Theory CD  Year: 2012 

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Mike Nock  

4SL

 Year: 2012
a duo written together with Laurenz Pike for piano and drum kit

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  • Mike Nock & Laurenz Pike - Kindred  Year: 2012 

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Felicity Williams  

A Promise is a Promise

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1991
music for Inuit story using assorted classroom percussion

Felicity Williams  

Aborigine Creation Myth

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1988
dance drama for children

• Instrumentation
  various tuned and untuned percussion

Gareth Farr  

Acid Euphoria

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1999
for gamelan and three percussionists

• Instrumentation
  Percussion: brake drums, roto toms, tom toms, cymbals, timpani, bass drum, tamtam.
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  • Beat! International Festival of Gamelan  Year: 1999 

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Mike Nock  

All Most Blues

 Year: 2012
a duo written together with Laurenz Pike for piano and drum kit

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  • Mike Nock & Laurenz Pike - Kindred  Year: 2012 

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Neville Hall  

and the sound went up like smoke

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2000, r. 2001
for two amplified vibraphones with four players

• Availability

  • Hall: and the sound went up like smoke; computer set 

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Juliet Palmer  

Blood Shower

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1998, r. 1999
music theatre for percussion duo

• Instrumentation
  Percussion: drumkit; mobile instruments; furniture; clothing (full details in score)
• Availability

  • Palmer: Blood Shower; computer-set 

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    $8.50
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  • Palmer: Selected Works I 

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Maria Grenfell  

Blue Green Red Black

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1996
for percussion ensemble of four players

• Instrumentation
  wind chimes; vibraphone; maracas; woodblock; log drum; glockenspiel; triangle; temple blocks; snare drum; suspended cymbal; five tom-toms; finger cymbals; 3 gongs; crotales; marimba; conga; bongos; glasses; chimes; bucket of water and stones; claves; tamtam; tenor drum; bass drum
• Programme Note

  The work represents four nature images: blue/water, green/forest, red/volcanic activity, black/darkness.

• Availability

  • Grenfell: Blue Green Red Black; computer-set 

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  • Grenfell: Blue Green Red Black; computer set 

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    $32.50
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  • Maria Grenfell: Selected Works 

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  • Maria Grenfell: Blue Green Red Black 

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Jonathan Crehan  

Bold Spark

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2009
for marimba and piano

• Programme Note

  An exciting, positive work for marimba.

  This work won first prize in the ‘Tonal 21st Century’ category of the 2009 Classical Marimba League Composition Competition.

• Availability

  • Crehan: Bold Spark; computer-set 

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    $9.00
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